Anonymous
Post 10/25/2025 20:34     Subject: Small to medium sized colleges in big cities for a good but not top student
Valdosta State
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2025 20:32     Subject: Small to medium sized colleges in big cities for a good but not top student
Georgia State honors
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2025 20:31     Subject: Small to medium sized colleges in big cities for a good but not top student
Anonymous wrote:How liberally do you define "big city"

Depaul
Agnes Scott (adjacent to Atlanta - all women)
Lesley (Boston)
Duquesne
There are a bunch of HBCU's if that is your thing
Stevens



Op. Not liberally at all unfortunately. NYC Boston. LA. San Francisco. Miami. Chicago. New Orleans could work too.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2025 20:09     Subject: Small to medium sized colleges in big cities for a good but not top student
There are many urban schools outside the top 50 that are great schools. DePaul, SMU, Drexel, Loyola Chicago, Loyola Marymount, Pittsburgh, University of Cincinatti...
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2025 19:23     Subject: Small to medium sized colleges in big cities for a good but not top student
Butler
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2025 18:45     Subject: Small to medium sized colleges in big cities for a good but not top student
BC
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2025 16:58     Subject: Small to medium sized colleges in big cities for a good but not top student
Burlington isn’t a big city but there’s UVM.

Miami
SMU
TCU
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2025 16:57     Subject: Small to medium sized colleges in big cities for a good but not top student
Can you explain what you mean by good/not great? B/C some of the schools people are mentioning are on my very good junior’s (4.0uw, 4.6ish w, 1400+ SAT, 9 APs with 4/5s) list and we have them as low and high reaches (Oberlin/Case/Rochester).
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2025 16:47     Subject: Small to medium sized colleges in big cities for a good but not top student
How liberally do you define "big city"

Depaul
Agnes Scott (adjacent to Atlanta - all women)
Lesley (Boston)
Duquesne
There are a bunch of HBCU's if that is your thing
Stevens

Anonymous
Post 10/25/2025 16:25     Subject: Small to medium sized colleges in big cities for a good but not top student
Anonymous wrote:Macalester in St. Paul/Minn.
University of Denver in Denver
Oberlin near Cleveland
Loyola Marymount in LA
Occidental in LA
Seattle U in Seattle
University of San Francisco in SF





+1
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2025 16:20     Subject: Small to medium sized colleges in big cities for a good but not top student
Pitt
Fordham
Case
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2025 15:48     Subject: Small to medium sized colleges in big cities for a good but not top student
Trinity, in Hartford.
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2025 15:39     Subject: Small to medium sized colleges in big cities for a good but not top student
St Thomas (mn)
Univ of Portland
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2025 15:33     Subject: Re:Small to medium sized colleges in big cities for a good but not top student
Tulane
Anonymous
Post 10/25/2025 15:32     Subject: Small to medium sized colleges in big cities for a good but not top student
Loyola MD in Baltimore